Climate of Our Future

Science Daily — The most comprehensive assessment to date of Australia’s climate was jointly released October 4 by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO.

CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have produced a report which provides state-by-state climate change projections. (Credit: CSIRO)

Climate Change in Australia provides the latest information on observed climate change over Australia and its likely causes, as well as updated projections of changes in temperature, rainfall and other aspects of climate that can be expected over coming decades as a result of continued global emissions of greenhouse gases.

“By 2030 we expect temperatures will rise by about 1ºC over Australia compared with the climate of recent decades,” says one of the report’s authors, CSIRO’s Dr Penny Whetton. “The probability of warming exceeding 1°C is 10-20 per cent for coastal areas and more than 50 per cent for inland regions.” Keep reading.